Today's #NewAtNoon looks back at Seattle's iconic Lincoln's Toe Truck, which was retired to the MOHAI collection in 2005. www.historylink.org/File/23527
Today's #NewAtNoon looks back at Leroy Menswear in Seattle. The store closed in 2018 after 38 years in business. www.historylink.org/File/23498
Today's #NewAtNoon features Alice Ball (1892-1916) who earned two pharmacy-related degrees from the University of Washington. Ball discovered the first effective treatment for leprosy, but after she died at age 24, a male colleague took credit for her work. www.historylink.org/File/23522
Today's #NewAtNoon looks at the history of Issaquah's Gilman Village. www.historylink.org/File/23507
Today's #NewAtNoon looks at the Country Doctor Community Clinic, a nonprofit health organization that opened in Seattle in 1971 and is now part of Seattle Roots Community Health. www.historylink.org/File/23491
#Today's #NewAtNoon looks back at Clarence "C. C." Dill, who served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Washington from 1923 to 1935. Many have described him as the "Father of the Grand Coulee Dam." www.historylink.org/File/23490
Today's #NewAtNoon goes back to August 6, 1959, when 16-year-old Sharon Tate was crowned Miss Richland. www.historylink.org/File/23470 #WomensHistoryMonth
Washington's own version of President William Henry Harrison ...
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Today's #NewAtNoon looks at Samuel Cosgrove, who served as Washington's sixth governor between January and March 1909. Seriously ill with Bright's disease, he left Olympia two days after his inauguration to convalesce in California, but died there. https://www.historylink.org/File/22629
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Cosgrove, Samuel Goodlove (1847-1909)